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se THE T.KK: OMAHA. FUIDAV. FEBRl'ABY 16. 1912. 13 r Si tr v. ii.The. (BGe,8 IIip MafazirP SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT The Judge Lets a Masher Off Light Copyright. Wi. National Nws Asaootati) By Tad jf 133 ?r"NSol AfrMM- I iSflTH JAVaUfrfltNATMI MOKrc nNISM JHCfr IQOtC ONO. i I'D WCr MCR-eCT IF Vt couco OMiw &err Bf3. 1 II E l - ' I t II ' ' ' '''' ' v ii..i- rid turn firxTfiAfWx WNfc- enTRC A CfKJOfc K0 Ccmt A ujairMTiMsT TO A soum- iaov AOtatf we- snteer Hews, am w SttOO Ban HCT. wtirwcx. J xmatiin-nn$et vP . ATefriTHf. MDKHIHA m7 , HM 01 THE POUt & Art POUT "ft'- rM 4 HOTl' ,n- tr-aiar MT-o0U5-lu7J Am' VVATIX. ' ' ju Jtui . 1 SWA m I ... - ... . I BK Mf'r I I l fl fV""" " l"t IWNOtsn I ff?J I AUUtfi MiM r 1 3 AMD VOtf VET 1NIPI the fMiONER Arme TlrAEOFH.S AMREiT- I C05MT TO JEXO V90 AWAY too - Bur - ve heso re cower jcwTENfet THAT MAM- VtHAT 0 SOU 7H'NJ OF IT? . T- -I-4 - I THlNr. tie AarofF U6fl- SOUK HONOR. mm mmmm K1 1 UiJfeffia ihiiiiiintitiitiiihil&iiMuniiiT ! I 1 1 IIIIJJJ I p Woman's Lack of Pride J Ily IMtHOTHT MX. Conaitlr bUo woiui'i tack of prid In hrr woik. Tli great primal function ot woman la to ba lfe and mothtr. That la what natura originally rreatrd hrr (or, and the graateat and moat Im portant work that aha can do in tha world tha ona vital ue'ulty that aha rtndra,to aodety-. la to be a home maker. Now to be a good wife, and mother, and maka a good homa la tha moat lupandou, tha nmt complicated, tha moat wearying and wearing Job on earth. More over, It la ona that calli for tha greateat diversity of talents and abllltlaa, and tha eierclae of almost superhuman powers of patience and andnrance. Any fairly Intelligent person .can. by study and energy, maka himself or her self Into a reasonably good lawyer, doc tor, preacher, diplomat, caterer, dress maker, milliner, school teacher, nurses shopper," financier, entertainer ,ok, chambermaid 'or 'etalrvoyant.' Hut the wlfa and mother and homa maker has to bunch all of these profes sions and a dozen others In her awn per son. Kha must ba lawyer and judge who can lust settle all tha dlaputes that rise among her children. She must be physi cian and nursa wha can eaa lot them when they are ailing. She must ba a cook who can get a dinner, and a aoelety Isdy who can scintillate at the head of her table. Una must be a clergyman who can direct her chlldren'a feet to ward heaven, and bridge a player who can hold her hand with her circle of an evening. She must know how to spend her husband's money so as to make ona dollar look Ilka two and ba clever enough to cover her tracks. Above all, aha must be seeress enough. to divine her husband's mood when ba comes, -home of an even ing and discover before ha speaks whether It Is the psychological moment to strike him for new parlor curtains or whether It Is tha part of .wisdom to hustle tha children up the back stairs and lock the cat In tha cellar. Rather a difficult undertaking, lan't It, to be a good wife and mother and homa maker? Yet the fate of tha universe hinges upon a woman being able to do all these parlor and kitchen trlcka with one hand while aha appears to ba enjoy ing herself with another. And the won der of it ia that tha great majority of women are this kind of prestidigitators. You would think that any one who had the transcendent ability and the marvelous versatility required to pull off sn artistic performance of a wife and mother and home maker would think that she waa a head liner In humanity, and entitled to have her name In- large elecuie lights over her door. If aha also thought that she was starring In tha bigKest role In the drama of Ufa, and went about bragging about it, and about how aha got tbe glad hand from her husband and children and an admiring audience of friends, wa might em!e over hi r sweil-headedneaa, but we would have to admit that aha waa Justified In It. But bow do women really view this subject? They are so little proud of the - great work they do and that moat of them do so well that they do not think that It la anything. Tbey don't even dignify It by calling It a career, or a life work. They think it (a nothing. There Is no other piece ot sarcasm on tha face of the earth Ilka that which applies (he epithet "working woman" to the woman who werke in an office or a stra, a distinguished from the woman who worka In her ostn home. Why, (he wife dnd mother does ten times aa much work evtry day of her life aa any eld Scrooge of an employer ever wrings out of hia women employes. There's no eight hour law- for the protection of mother as there Is fw the protection of the fac tory worker. T Yet it la universally conceded that wife and mother Isn't a working woman, and the humorous part of It Is that wife and mother, with her poor fingers worked to the bone, coincides In the view. I have hadj thousands of women who were Ideal wives and mothers and home makers say to me: "It must be a fine thing to have some work to do in the world. I wish I had." "Great heavens, woman." I cried, "aren't you making a good man happy? Aren't you raising up a nice family of children? Don't you make a home that la a blearing and a benediction to every body who cornea near UT "Oh. yea." the woman will reply hum bly, "but I would like te do something really Important" And the pathetic part of this Is that she la doing the most important work poaaibte, and abe gets no joy out of It, because aha baa no pride ia it It ia because women have no pride ia their work that thev have ao much trouble with their husbands on the money question. One of the potent sources of domestic discontent with women la that they have no financial Independence. Their husbands psy their bills with mut terlnga and grumblings, but It la easier to get blood out of a turnip than It Is to get tha average man ta make hla wife a definite allowance for her own personal expanses. Tha result Is that the wife of many ' a well-to-do man never haa even a cent that she can do with as she plessea without having to give an ao count for It I bold that If the women did not un dervalue her service the husband would not She makes her labor slave labor because aha works for her board and clothes, and. If aha la willing to do this, naturally the man la willing to take It. Each of us writ our price Ug In this world, and If we mark ourselves down to cents, no philanthropist la going to come along and take us off the bargain counter, and mark ua up.' and put ua up among the precious article that a man haa to pay for before he can get.- It's women's tack of pride In their call ing that makea their husbanda hold them cheap, and It ia up to them to demand for services that take all of heart and brain and body services so great that ao money could par for them at least aa much aa a man pays his cook ar .hi typewriter.,, .-. ..- ... . - It la for women themselves to take wifehood and motherhood and home making out of the ranka of the jack-leg trades and put It where It belongs, among the learned and highly paid professions. But they will never do It until they get to the point where they take some pride In their work, .. TXft JJPS THAT TOUCH i-lCne JUAU. NatVsJC TOUCH sain a. TW, FsTFOIHANP MAXONAlfisT. 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COLCeTCT tlUl iBHQ My ALCuen Tft TrrtT rFFnerrvr pAfditr fVrfsI net TOW am?H POJrWi A60VT THfT jUN DAW MMU THErl ArTCH A'rA THC Mir 0 TMeT TIMC r m rC KIT Of AHAPPy OUV TDK 1 ' SEP SJ ssaSa-ffVll'saJ 1 TOOOTlUf f Little Bobbie's Pa 4 RESOURCES OF COUNTRY are not vanishing The theory that the American people, individually and collectively, are too In competent dishonest and wasteful to set tle freely upon our landa, open up our mlnea Irrigate our fields or establish In dustrial operations baaed upon the native resources of the country; that there ta no further use for the prospector, the dis coverer, the homestead, settler, the miner, thi Indrstiial worker and tha empire builder, a fair statement of tha .con tentions of the conservation propaganda. Tbe main contention, however, upon which our conservation statesmen base their arguments la tha false and ridic ulous one that our resources- are van tshlng and that as a nation wa are facing an Impending fam'ne of oil. Iron, coal. phosphates, timber, water, giasa, etc. The teal sdentlfio and economic facta show conclusively that never In our his tory ha there been such a remarkable output of developed native products or such enormoua area of undeveloped re sources a have been recently discovered and defined by scientific Investigation. According to official reports we have about 03,OOOlIO acres of timber land In this country. Germany has K.'IM.Ortt acres and la not at all worried about lta future supply. Tha forest growth of Germany la estimated at CM feet of board measure per acre annually. If w estimate our forest grjwth at S0 feet, or leas than one-half t tha German Increase, our total Increase from forest growth amounts to lft.tta,000,00 feet annually. A we con sume about Ki.Otw.oeo.O per annum this Increase alone la more than three times the amount we consume aa a nation. Allowing for losses by forest fires and waste, our foresta are now producing by natural growth more than twice as much aa the nation consumes. The chief forester a few years ago threw the scare of aa Impending iron ore famine Into the American people. We were seriously notified that our supply of iron ore would last only forty or fifty years longer. The Investigations of the L'nited Statu geological survey In IKS show that the known Iron ore de posits of the United States amount to U4.0jO,uO tons, or enough to supply tbe country, at the present rate of con sumption, 1,M year. It should be re membered that a large percentage of the iron smelted in our fu ranees consists of scrap Iron, and. aa the age progress?, every kind of Iron manufacture will go back into our furnace in an ever in creasing supply, and this reutilisatlon of iron will extend the supply to probably i,M years. Twenty-five years ago a gold famine wa predicted. Slrce then the output of gold In the world haa been so great aa ta alarm our financier, and it baa be come so cheap and abundant aa to raise the scale of prices. Our copper resources are so Immense that now the supply of copper ia far beyond the demand, ani hundreds of low-grade mines oaanot be worked at a profit Vor the aame reason only the rk-best silver mines can be veiked.-LesJie's Weekly. "Br"!". Copyrl,hl.lHN.tlon.l News A.socis.lon. gy BrillklCy . . Pretty Tough on Cupid, with the Thermometer Below Zero. ii itis Ills " THEY'VE BEEN SAYING SWEET THINGS TO EACH OTHER FOUR HOURS AND ,' '.' CUPID IS NEARLY FROZEN. 1 I .X i s w By WILUAX F. KIRK. I ruddent git hoem any seller, r sed , provided Ur h show A to Ms. wen ha got boam last nits. I jest cuddent. it Is a long atery, but I will do my best to tell It. I was out with my old friend Colonel Walter. II ws telling me what ba thought of Mister Wilson, A It took him a long time te git all of It out of hla slslsnu Husband, deer. sed Ms, you ar nothing If you ar not- a wonder, Bumtlme I think It I simply suberb the way you stall. Oo on A tell the rest of It; I will beleev part ot It If you talk fast. Ma. Well, sed !. the old Colonel was lure kind of sore at Wilson. H sed that he dldent believe he had been properly qW-ed. A beef oar h got through talk ing I had ta talk away his gun, ra sed. He hung ant It a long tlm. Ilk a true Kntucky-an. Pa sed. but my superior strength teela la the long ni A I took It away. Otherwise h mils bsvs shot Mister Wilson, Too know how I dislike eamag. sed Pa, Carnage la Ilk charity. It ahud brain at boam sad there. . All the Urn Ma waa letting. You are a funny husband, sed M. Wen yur llltel son A yur llttel . wife was waiting at hoem. why ' did you hare to stop down town A talk politicks to a editor.. If you reely was talking to a editor, Ma aed, wlch J dout, you mite have remembered that yon promised to talk me to a show tonlte, A perhap then yo wtsd look a whole lot better. But, dearest luv, sed Ta. I have already a-.T, am going ta talk yu A llttel itobbia Kddle Dunn tj galv ra sum seets to see Mister Hitch- r.. . M' - Oh you deer, asd Ma you are alwaya so thoughtful A kind. I have alwaya',, tnald all my friend how eon-alderata ' you waa of me. Hurry up A put on yure clothes. Bobble, sed Ma. A wa will all go 7 to ticks A Wattrson. .. Vr Ma A me got dressed prltty quick. A ' Pa took ua oaver to the show. Th nalnt of th show wa th Red Widow, A. Mister Hitchcock wa vary funny In It I know this sounds Mk a ad f or a attoW w but I ssked th dltr If be wud let m , put K la my assay, A he sed ye. Mlatar Hitchcock sang a song wtca sed ,n's I will Newer Look at Another Butlful" Olrl A Ma sed to Pa I sent that a manly way to talk, I wish you wad talk that . . , way. Ma sed. I have of fen saw yoni.tt: slant at a lot of pretty juris. Ma eoV.'Hj Tou ar looking at sum of than new, th t sar lt Mm (tag. f rt Well, wife, sed Pa. I will tell you. If the tlm ewer cuma wen I cant look af" a butlful gurl t want to have a mile- t stone around my nock A sink gent-ly' Into th Hast River. ... . . Yew an a nlU-atan. net mil -" stone, sed Ma. ZT I mean aether ens, sed Pa, wlchever tsvU tit hs-rvlest. ' r-.-ej But If Mister Hitchcock can any UiT' surely you can promise th salm thing,. sed MA Wife, sed Pa, how can you expeck ma. to promise newer to look at a butlful -v. gurl wen you ar th first gurl I se every morning. Why, asd Pa, yau ar,-""-! prlltler than th wnol tea gurl Mlsete,.,i uMbaon asked to lunch. ' Thea Ma patud Pas cheek A caU4 .A him a deer boy. A kid can lent a lot... going around with Pa. -- y The End of a Great War a J Br REV. THOMAS & GREGORY. Prkraary 1, tTI. The grt Ftanco-Prussian war ram ta aa end forty-one year ago today Pcbruary M, WTU On that day the French garrison at Belford, U.Ota strong, marched out with military honors, a litti later stacked their arm and th bloody con flict was over. The wr which wa that day brought to a close with such humllls tloa tor Franc and aueh glory for Ger many haa not yet oeeeed to be a won der to all thought ful men. How did It hap pen that tha most martial people on th continent turned out t V helpless when confronted by the soldiers of th fatherland? What I tbe explanation of their overwhelming defeat at the bands of th Germans? How did It hsppen that th man who, under th first Napoleon, had proven themselves well nigh In vincible, were repeatedly nd Inglorlously bvsten under Napoleon the Tntrd? The fact 1 undeniable, and It haa been a source of much perplexity not only to the layman, but to military students th world over, Th answer Is not far to seek. The Germans were thoroughly organised. Their preparation wa complete. They were led by generals who perfectly under stood their business, who were masters of both tactics and strategy, and who, to crown all, were guided by a single brain that of the great Moltka, who had ar- bi- . ranged for every move that waa te mode months before th war began. , Th French, on the other hand, wsr In. a stsl bordering 0 chaos. Thar Waa l next to no organisation, but little prepare- - r tlon. and scarcely any program. , Th -Jl foolish nan at th head of th nation.. without etateemanshlp. without general ship, without even ordinary eomrooa . ,r sense, gathered up his people and kw-led 'V them, without competent leaders and with- out any great central plan or guidance,'.,' against the most perfect organisation" that modern tlm ha seen, and the re- ' ' suit ws a t Oregon conclusion. Th;,, French were whipped before a gun waa -' fired whipped by the criminal eareie-' ' nee and Imbecility of Napoleea tha 1 Uttl. ,7f Th men who were ao bitterly humili ated In U1 were th sons of th men who " won Msrengo and Austeriltz, Jena and ! Auerstadt Wsgrsn sad Frledland, and ' wer every bit a good aa their fathers. ' They wer not degenerates, but men aa brave, valorous and capable aa tbels father had been; and had they been ' properly organised and properly led It I certain that they would have given a . good account of themselves. , ' It was a costly pier of experience, a- i that Franco-Prussian war, but It taught 'J" Franca th lesson she will never forges -, that It ta suicidal to go to war with mob . for armies and Incompetents for leaders., ' ' " "l lorn people Impress ua aa being too) ' polite to get all that's coming to them.. The woman who docent car who knows ' bar age Is never over & Occasionally w meet a man who would ,'1 rather work for a living than get lnto- polltic. Sonnets of a Lightweight J By WILLIAM F. KIRK. They aid 1 quit last nlsht Tbey call ma yellow I gue they never got one' on th chin Ttat makes a fellow reel around and grin And hear swell music moaning from a 'cello. I felt )nst like a drinker, gay and mellow, . Except soma pain, ilka subbing from a pOi And noises ia my ears like failing tin; When I woks np 'twas "He's a yellow fellow. i s - I got two hundred dollars for the night. .Two hundred dollar for a cared-ln My manager, I guess, was treated right;' - He wears a thousand dollars' worth ot clothes. IT. Ay1 got to wear cheap tluds and they don't fit. then they said I quit. They said 1 quit! 9